Prisoners' Release: Domestic Abuse
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the number of people who (a) have been convicted of domestic abuse and (b) will be released early from prison as part of the SDS40 scheme.
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin
There is no single offence for domestic abuse defined in legislation as many other criminal offences can include domestic abuse.
The SDS40 change has exclusions for specific offences linked to domestic abuse including stalking, coercive or controlling behaviour and non-fatal strangulation. This represents a change from the previous Government’s End of Custody Supervised Licence Scheme which failed to exclude domestic abuse sentences.
SDS40 data will be published in due course.
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